SCCI Membership
About SCCI
Membership
SCCI membership offers a biblical foundation and personal benefits, with three types of members and a four-stage joining process. Members have responsibilities to uphold personal purity, pursue healthy relationships, contribute to the church, and seek to serve. Partnering members receive privileges like decision-making power and priority for facility usage. Joining SCCI is a valuable way to contribute to the church community and gain benefits.
Three reasons for being a member of SCCI
Three reasons for being a member of SCCI
01
It is Biblical
02
It is Valuable to SCCI leadership
03
It Is for your benefit
Three types of members
1. Positional members – visitor
2. Participating member
3. Partnering member ( Fully committed to the vision of the church)
Four stages of becoming a member
1. Investigation- attend a membership class
2. Affirmation- respond to questions and evaluate whether membership is for you.
3. Confirmation- prospective member meets with a trained leader
4. Celebration – Introduced to the church
Four responsibilities
of every SCCI member
1. Personal purity: to bring to the church a submitted, spirit-filled self (John15:5)
2. Relational Integrity: to pursue respectable, honourable and caring relationships with family, co-workers, friends, neighbours and within the body of Christ (II Corinthians1:12; Romans 12:18)
3. Organizational loyalty: to contribute to the church one’s time, treasure and talents, and to be responsive to the leadership God has established and ordained in SCCI
4. Interpersonal maturity: to seek to serve more than to be served (John 13:12-15)
Privileges of membership
Partnering Members:
1. Have the right to influence key decisions of the church
2. Will receive priority for facility usage and leadership’s time (e.g. for weddings, funerals, and personal ministry).
3. Attend membership-only meetings regarding church matters
4. May be appointed t o leadership positions
5. Will be in the program of the church